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How to Fall in Love with You with Mary O’Malley

Mary O’Malley is an author and speaker who has studied with Patricia Sun, Steven Levine, Jack Kornfield, Pema Chodron, Adyashanti, and more! Since the early 1980’s, she has been writing books, speaking to groups, leading retreats, and working with people all over the world.
In this episode, Eric and Mary O’Malley discuss how to bring awareness and attention to our heart and learn to fall in love with ourselves.
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Mary O’Malley and I Discuss How to Fall in Love with You and …
- Learning to embrace the difficult makes it lose its power
- Noticing what is here brings awareness and openness
- Our minds are a tool for maneuvering reality, but are not reality
- How our challenges will be our teachers if we let them
- Understanding that our heart is connected to everything and is the doorway to freedom
- Her course, “Falling in Love With You”
- How your home is your heart
- The pathways back to YOU
- What you try to control, controls you
- One of our core addictions is fixing ourselves
- The difference between meeting and feeling our feelings
- How attention heals
- The importance finding curiosity in your immediate experience
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Re-Release: Mary O’Malley on Practical Awakening

Mary O’Malley is an author, teacher, and counselor whose work awakens others to the joy of being fully alive. Her inspired and transformative approach to compulsions offers a way to replace fear, hopelessness, and struggle with ease, well-being, and joy. Through her individual counseling and coaching, books, classes, retreats, and ongoing groups, Mary invites people to experience the miracle of awakening.
Acknowledged as a leader in the field of Awakening by many Mary clearly sees both the big picture and the details of human patterns and conditioning. She possesses an extraordinary ability to understand and connect with people. And she is skilled in empowering people to work with difficult mind states resulting in greater inner awareness and presence and a greater capacity for joy. Eckhart Tolle says, “Thank you, Mary, for your contribution to the evolution of human consciousness.”
Her latest book is called What’s In the Way, Is the Way: A Practical Guide to Awakening.
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In This Interview, Mary O’Malley and I Discuss…
- The intertwining of good and bad, the yin and yang
- Dealing with eating problems
- How what we fight, we empower
- Creating a relationship with the dark side
- The impact of the early years of our lives
- The conditioned self
- How we are addicted to struggle
- Being present to life instead of thinking our way through life
- The “low-grade suffering” that permeates our lives
- The storyteller in our minds
- The Four Lets
- Learning to not listen so closely to the storyteller in our mind
- The difference between being here for life and being in a conversation about life
- The power of curiosity
- The 8 core spells that we tell ourselves
- Look to Unhook
- The power of human attention to heal
- Sticking with these practices even when it seems to be going slow
- Watching for tightness in yourself as a trigger to let go
- Learning to be here for whatever life presents
- The gift of our compulsions
- Having a set of beliefs that empower us versus take our power away
- Life is set up to bring up what is bound up so we can open up to be freed up so can show up for life
- Not being the victim of life
- Having the ability to come back to the heart
Mary O’Malley Links:
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125: Mary O’Malley

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This week we talk to Mary O’Malley about awakening to the world around us
Mary O’Malley is an author, teacher, and counselor whose work awakens others to the joy of being fully alive. Her inspired and transformative approach to compulsions offers a way to replace fear, hopelessness and struggle with ease, well-being and joy. Through her individual counseling and coaching, books, classes, retreats and ongoing groups, Mary invites people to experience the miracle of awakening.
Acknowledged as a leader in the field of Awakening by many Mary clearly sees both the big picture and the details of human patterns and conditioning. She possesses an extraordinary ability to understand and connect with people. And she is skilled in empowering people to work with difficult mind states resulting in greater inner awareness and presence and a greater capacity for joy. Eckhart Tolle says, “Thank you, Mary, for your contribution to the evolution of human consciousness.”
Her latest book is called What’s In the Way, Is the Way: A Practical Guide to Awakening.
In This Interview, Mary O’Malley and I Discuss:
- The One You Feed parable
- The intertwining of good and bad, the yin and yang
- Dealing with eating problems
- How what we fight, we empower
- Creating a relationship with the dark side
- The impact of the early years of our lives
- The conditioned self
- How we are addicted to struggle
- Being present to life instead of thinking our way through life
- The “low-grade suffering” that permeates our lives
- The storyteller in our minds
- The Four Let’s- Let Life, Let it Be, Let it Go,
- Learning to not listen so closely to the storyteller in our mind
- The difference between being here for life and being in a conversation about life
- The power of curiosity
- The core spells that we tell ourselves
- Look to Unhook
- The power of human attention to heal
- Sticking with these practices even when it seems to be going slow
- Watching for tightness in yourself as a trigger to let go
- Learning to be here for whatever life presents
- The gift of our compulsions
- Having a set of beliefs that empower us versus take our power away
- Life is set up to bring up what is bound up so we can open up to be freed up so can show up for life
- Not being the victim of life
- Having the ability to come back to the heart
How to Explore Our Awareness with Jonathan Robinson

Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of many books, and a professional speaker. His work has been translated into 47 languages. Jonathan has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN as well as other national TV talk shows. He has spent over 35 years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development and is also known for his popular podcast, Awareness Explorers.
In this episode, Eric and Jonathan discuss enlightenment as well as various techniques to explore our awareness.
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In This Interview, Eric and Jonathan Robinson Discuss How to Explore Our Awareness and …
- His definition of enlightenment: a shift in identity from ego-personality to presence and awareness
- Enlightenment is being at peace in the present moment
- His humbling experience of speaking to Mother Theresa
- Experimenting with and being willing to try different techniques to help shift your view
- How having gratitude and saying “Thank You” many times a day can change your experience
- Techniques and phrases for working with our judgmental mind
- Learning to not take our views so seriously
- How being more playful in our lives can bring the feeling of freedom
- His powerful technique for happiness: not letting your mind take over when you’re enjoying something
- The different forms of inquiry we can practice
- Questions we can ask that can reorient ourselves from our problem seeking minds
- Making a pain and pleasure list and scheduling things from your pleasure list
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